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Zeke snorts

"Where’s Four?" says Uriah, checking his watch "Should we start without hi The Info"

Uriah nods like that ain?"

"The info about Kang’s little peace with Jeanine," says Zeke "Obviously"

Across the roo at a table with her sister They are both reading so

My entire body tenses Cara, Will’s older sister, is walking across the room toward Christina’s table I duckover his shoulder I want to punch him

"Stop it!" I say "Could you be anymy arms on the table "Will’s sister is over there"

"Yeah, I talked to her about getting out of Erudite once, while I was there," says Zeke "Said she saw an Abnegation woet killed while she was on a mission for Jeanine and couldn’t stomach it anymore"

"Are we sure she’s not just an Erudite spy?" Lynn says

"Lynn, she saved half our faction froe on her arm from where the Dauntless traitors shot her "Well, half of half of our faction"

"In some circles they call that a quarter, Mar," Lynn says

"Anyho cares if she is a traitor?" Zeke says "We’re not planning anything that she can inform them about And we certainly wouldn’t include her if ere"

"There is plenty of inforather here," Lynn says "How many of us there are, for example, or how many of us aren’t wired for si me why she left," says Zeke "I believe her"

Cara and Christina have gotten up, and are walking out of the rooo to the bathrooh the doors, then half walk, half jog in that direction I open one of the doors slowly, so it doesn’t make any noise, and then close it slowly behind e--this must be where the Candor trash chute is

I hear two female voices around the corner and creep toward the end of the hallway to hear better

"just can’t handle her being here," one of the itwhat she didI don’t understand how she could have done that!"

Christina’s sobs make me feel like I a

"Well, I do," she says

"What?" Christina says with a hiccup

"You have to understand; we’re trained to see things as logically as possible," says Cara "So don’t think that I’irl was probably scared out of hersituations cleverly at the time, if she was ever able to do so"

My eyes fly open What a--I run through a short list of insults into her continue

"And the si with him, so when he threatened her life, she reacted as she had been trained by the Dauntless to react: Shoot to kill"

"So what are you saying?" says Christina bitterly "We should just forget about it, because it makes perfect sense?"

"Of course not," says Cara Her voice wobbles, just a little, and she repeats herself, quietly this time "Of course not"

She clears her throat "It’s just that you have to be around her, and I want to ive her Actually, I’m not sure why you were friends with her in the first place; she always seemed a bit erratic to ree with her, but to my surprise--and relief--she doesn’t

Cara continues "Anyway You don’t have to forgive her, but you should try to understand that what she did was not out of malice; it was out of panic That way, you can look at her without wanting to punch her in her exceptionally long nose"

My hand hs a little, which feels like a hard poke to the sto Place

Even though Cara was rude--and the nose corateful for what she said

Tobias eth of white cloth He flicks the cloth out of the way irritably before co besideto meet with a representative of Jeanine Matthews at seven in the ," he says

"A representative?" Zeke says "She’s not going herself?"

"Yeah, and stand out in the open where a bunch of angry people with guns can take aim?" Uriah smirks a little "I’d like to see her try No, really, I would"

"Is Kang the Brilliant taking a Dauntless escort, at least?" Lynn says

"Yes," Tobias says "Some of the older members volunteered Bud said he would keep his ears open and report back"

I frown at him How does he know all this infor a Dauntless leader at all costs, is he suddenly acting like one?

"So I guess the real question is," says Zeke, folding his hands on the table, "if you were Erudite, ould you say at this ?"

They all look at ent," Zeke replies

"So is Tobias"

"Yeah, but he doesn’t have aptitude for Erudite"

"And how do you know I do?"

Zeke lifts his shoulder "Seems likely Doesn’t it seem likely?"

Uriah and Lynn nod Tobias’s mouth twitches, as if in a smile, but if that’s what it was, he suppresses it I feel like a stone just dropped into my stomach